SPOTLIGHT

Kinship and Contradictions

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity

By Stephanie Bastek Friday, December 13, 2024

SPOTLIGHT

Kinship and Contradictions

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity

By Stephanie Bastek Friday, December 13, 2024

Essays

Fear of Falling

Working in the mop-and-bucket brigade in college created the perspectives of a lifetime

Tuning Up

Verde

Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense the world anew

Asturias Days

Cats and Dogs

Read Me a Poem

“Full Moon Rhyme” by Judith Wright

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

Katie Heller Saltoun

Tenderness and grit

Fiction

Magic Men

Book Reviews

Aging Out

Many of us do not go gentle into that good night

Asturias Days

Braña Curuchu

Cover Story

Under a Spell Everlasting

Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, published a century ago, tells of a world unable to free itself from the cataclysm of war

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